Oregon
Emerald
_ Fiftieth Year of Publication and Service to the University
VOLUME L UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1949 NUMBER 145
Students File Race Petitions;
Professors Go on Griddle
Cut in Vacation
Draws Protest
From Campus
Signed petitions and a letter of
explanation were submitted last
weekend to the administrative
board of the University of Ore
gon in protest of the shorter spring
vacation scheduled for 1950.
Corlista Vonderahe, sophomore
in liberal arts who has led the pro
test movement, said that “There
were a large number of names on
the petitions.” The petitions had
been circulating for some time in
campus living groups.
The letter, according to Hiss
Vonderahe, suggested a calendar
similar to those currently used at
Stanford, OSC, and the University
of Oregon.
It stated that “psychologically,
the effects of spring term are
many,” going on to explain that
students are more or less confined
to quarter during the term.
The fact that no pre-registration
is scheduled for spring term also
came in for criticism. In addition,
it was pointed out that a previous
attempt at a shorter vacation,
tried during the war years, proved
unsuccessful.
“We also feel,” said Miss Von
derahe, “that many students will
be deprived of the chance to look
for jobs during spring vacation.
This is a time that a lot of job
hunting is done.”
The language of the petitions is
as follows:
“The undersigned do petition the
administration of the University
of Oregon for a repeal of the sched
ule as planned for the academic
year 1949-1950.
“We recommened that the win
ter term final week be scheduled
March 20 to March 24, and that
spring vacation be held until April
3. We also recommend pre-regis
tration.”
Miss Vonderahe included in her
letter of appeal a request for reply.
The calendar for each year is set
by the board of deans, wdiich will
meet in the near future.
Speech Contest
Scheduled Tonight
Finals of the annual Jewett in
tersectional speech contest will be
held tonight at 7:30 p.m. They will
he held in two sections, one for
men, the other for women, in room
4 Villard, and room 3 Fenton, re
spectively.
Contestants were chosen from
the fundamentals of speech classes.
Preliminaries were held yesterday
afternoon to narrow the field to 8
men and 8 women.
Prizes will be awarded to the
winners of each group. They are:
first place, $15; second prize, $10;
third prize, $5.
' Judges for the contest will be
W. C. Ballaine, Robert Hord, and
J. R. Parsons for the women, and
R. V. Mills, Paul Means, and P. A.
Killgallon for the men.
List of Graduates
Posted at Emerald
So you think you're graduat
ing June 19?
Maybe so, maybe not, but
there’s one safe way to find out.
An advance list of graduating
seniors has been posted in the
registration office in Emerald
hall. C. L. Constance, registrar,
asks that anyone expecting a
sheepskin check the list for their
name and report any mistakes
to the registrar’s office.
It may make a difference.
Student Drowns
In Umpqua River
John E. Eldridge, 19, freshman
in liberal arts, was drowned Sat
urday night when a car driven by
Henry Howard, graduate student
in music, plunged off the highway
15 miles east of Reedsport into the
Umpqua river.
Howard and the other passen
ger, Robert Fry, liberal arts stu
dent, swam 20 feet to safety. They
were uninjured.
When contacted by the Emerald
yesterday, Howard stated that the
Rights of his late-mocSel sedan
failed and the car fell over a 35
foot embankment. The top of the
car was caved in as it rolled over.
“All three of us escaped through
the right window,” Howard said.
“John couldn’t swim, but of course
we didn’t realize that until later.”
Howard and Fry were picked up
by the Ed Seablooms of Reedsport,
who lent them dry clothes and
housed them.
The three students had been on
the way to the beach when the
accident occurred. “We were going
to hobo it on the beach and cram
for tests,” Howard said. An ironic
note was furnished by the loss or
ruin of the books with the car.
Eldridge’s body was recovered
Sunday noon. He was a resident of
Eugene.
Eldridge was a graduate of Uni
versity high school where drama
became his main field interest. He
played a leading part in "Pride and
Prejudice,” the senior play and
was also a member of the Scarlet
Masque, dramatics club, and
worked on the high school paper.
He was born in Pasadena, Calif.,
and had previously attended high
school in Indiana.
Here at the University of Ore
gon he played a bit part in “Mar
co Millions.” He was a member of
the Yeomen.
His major field of study was bot
any and. he was also taking a
course at Northwest Christian col
lege.
Funeral services will be held at
the First Christian church at 2
p.m. Thursday with the Rev. A. L.
Webb, of Tillamook, officiating.
The Weather
Partly cloudy with scattered
I showers. High: 65.
Quiz Results
Secret Till End
Of Exam Week
Beginning with 8 o’clocks this
morning students in nearly 500
courses will have the opportunity to
rate their professors.
Supervisors drawn from the sen
ior class, Alpha Phi Omega, Fhi
Theta Upsilon, and Druids will ad
minister the “opinionnaires” under
the supervision of the faculty rating
committee. They will hand out the
forms at the beginning of the hour
in all classes where the professors
have requested the rating.
Students are asked' to fill out the
forms as quickly as possible so that
a minimum of class time will be
lost. Professors will be absent from
the room while the tests are being
given.
When students have filled out the
forms, the supervisors will seal the
results in designated envelopes,
which will be kept by the commit
tee until after the professors' finals
have been gtven. They will then be
returned unopened to the profes
sors.
Classes meeting on both Wednes
day and Thursday, will be rated on
Thursday. Headquarters of the fac
ulty rating committee during the
two days will be the Old Oregon of
fices in Friendly hall. Those assist
ing the rating are asked to enter
the offices through the back door
facing the parking lot.
Benton Lane Site
For Club Picnic
Benton Lane Park will be the
destination of Condon club mem
bers and their friends when they
leave Condon hall at 2 p. m. next
Saturday for their annual picnic.
Softball, swimming and hot dogs
will be the main items on the agenda
KDUK Broadcasts
Today at Twelve -
Vets Dorm, John Straub Only Housing
Groups to Hear Today's Broadcasts *
Additional KDUK information on Page ;t
The voice University students in the Vet's Dorm and John
Straub will hear this noon at 1280 on their radio dials will be that
of KDUK, the school’s own “powerful little 10-watter.”
The station will feature mainly musical programs. There will
be no commercials.
The station will operate on what is called the "phono-oscil
latoi principle. Its power will be carried on regular wires to the
two buildings, and then spread through the buildings by means of
an oscillator, a device for relaying radio waves short distances.
The oscillator board is plugged in only when the station is
operating.
For students who want to see KDUK on the air, there will be
VWA wpvu HUllow X ilC
shows will be heard from loud
speakers in Villard halls at that
time. Gwen Roberts and Arlett
Morrison will be hostesses.
Broadcasting will be from
noon till one, and from 6:30 p.
m. to 11 Monday through Fri
day until the end of the term.
From studios located high atop
newly-rebuilt Villard hall, the sta
tion will transmit “music for all
tastes.” Nearly everything, includ
ing 45 minutes of uninterrupted
music to study by, from disc-jock
ey’s choices to classical, will be
broadcast.
From the first hour-program,
“Duck Soup’s On,” 12 to 1, will
bloom a program that has been
budding all year.
Operations are being started ex
perimentally this spring instead of
waiting till fall term so there will
be a nucleus of trained students
around which to build next year’s
program.
College-trained students are
needed in the radio field, accord
ing to Bob Davy, faculty advisor
director of KDUK. This station, the
first of its kind in the state, was es
tablished as a training device for
the speech department, and to gain
the respect of radio station manag
ers for college-trained students.
Direct participation by students
will be encouraged. It is planned
that student talent will be used in
future programs. The program is;
aimed at students and run by stu
dents.
When the new equipment is in
stalled and organization becomes
more-or-less permanent, tentative
plans are for the station to become
a part of the Intercollegiate Broad
casting System, an organization to
(Please turn In pa(]C two)
KDUK Airs
Music and News
The opening day program for
KDUK will consist of music ami
news, according to Norm Lamb,
program director.
Be-bop to classical recordings
will be featured, and the news will
be campus doings plus interna
tional headlines. The station will
broadcast an hour at noon, ami
four and a half hours at night.
Here’s the complete schedule for
today:
12 noon to 1 p.m.—“Popular mm
sic” (An hour of good listening,,
with Norm Lamb.)
6:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.—“Meet the
Band” (Selections of one band,
with Bob Hinz.
7 p.m. to 7:15 p.m.—“Four for a
Quarter” (Four ballads by a popu
lar artist or combo.)
7:15 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.—“Show
Time” (Hits from great musicals
and stage shows, with Steve But
ton.)
7:30 p.m. to 8:15 p.m.—“Classi
cal Listening” (Words from tbe
Masters, with Bob Litten.)
8:15 p.m. to 9 p.m.—“Serenade
to the Student” (A program de
signed for easy studying, with Ed
Ladendorf.)
9 p.m. to 10:15 p.m.—“Anything
Goes” (KDUK’s Disk Jockey show,
with Fred Young.)
10:45 p.m. to 11 p.m.—“Campus
News” (A ten-minute roundup of
campus meetings, announcements,
and sports, plus five minutes of
international news. Irv Steinbeck
will be the announcer.
Not o New Idea
Station KDUK Is Dream Fulfilled
Once upon a time there were
three men with an idea, and, like
the three men on a horse, they
rode that idea to its conclusion.
The men:
R. L. Davy, instructor in speech;
Norman Lamb and Robert Litten,
students.
The idea:
Station KDUK.
It wasn’t a new dream. Their
road was paved by D. G. Starlin,
associate professor of speech, and
R. C. McCall, head of the speech
department, who made the estab
lishment of the station possible.
Its operation is largely the work
of the trio.
Davy, recognized Oregon’s need
for its own broadcasting studio
when he joined the faculty last
year. A 1947 graduate of the Uni
versity of California, Bob was an
nouncer and student director at
the University of Wisconsin sta
tion while studying for the master
of arts degree in 1948.
Besides his own experience, he
had heard of what other schools
were doing in radio work from
friends at Stanford and USC and
at a radio conference at Columbus,
Ohio. He wrote to the Intercollegi
ate Broadcasting System for the
information he needed, and then
talked the plan up.
Actually, according to Bob, his
selling job was easy—the most dif
ficult part was waiting for the
necessary equipment.
When the equipment was ob
tained, the station needed someone
who knew what to do with it. Bob
Litten was the man. An announcer
on KASH from October through
March, Bob became interested in
radio while at Eugene high school.
He started at Oregon as a jour
nalism major but was soon acting
and announcing on Oregon pro
grams broadcast through KOAC.
Bob, who wants to become an
announcer after graduation this
spring, did much of the wiring andi
technical work. Dave Strauss and
Jack Vaughn have assisted him.
His version of KDUK’s history:
“Like Topsy—it just growed.”
The station and equipment waa
ready -now they needed the pro
grams. And the student who could
arrange and supervise their pro
duction was Norm Lamb.
Norm started his radio work at
Washington high school in Port
land and has been working on the
local KOAC broadcasts for a year
and a half. He recently was award
ed a scholarship for a ten-week
training period this summer at sta
tion HEX in Portland, where he ex
pects to do everything from “con
tinuity, to filing, to emptying ash
trays.”
The promotional end of the busi
ness, possibly in television, inter
ests Norm, who will graduate in
June.